Jonathan Courtney

And now I have to listen to this stuff.

They're also the people that if you come to them, let me see if I can get this down to the perfect crystallization, if this is exactly what it is for you. You're really excited about something. You're really excited about a new thing. Let's say you got this and you're super excited and you show it to your friend and they're like, I heard teenage engineering are actually a shit company.

They're also the people that if you come to them, let me see if I can get this down to the perfect crystallization, if this is exactly what it is for you. You're really excited about something. You're really excited about a new thing. Let's say you got this and you're super excited and you show it to your friend and they're like, I heard teenage engineering are actually a shit company.

They're also the people that if you come to them, let me see if I can get this down to the perfect crystallization, if this is exactly what it is for you. You're really excited about something. You're really excited about a new thing. Let's say you got this and you're super excited and you show it to your friend and they're like, I heard teenage engineering are actually a shit company.

That's like a waste of money. That's crap. No matter what you do, they see that you're excited and they're like, let me just take the pin out of that. Let me bring you down a few pegs just to make sure you're not too excited and too happy about stuff.

That's like a waste of money. That's crap. No matter what you do, they see that you're excited and they're like, let me just take the pin out of that. Let me bring you down a few pegs just to make sure you're not too excited and too happy about stuff.

That's like a waste of money. That's crap. No matter what you do, they see that you're excited and they're like, let me just take the pin out of that. Let me bring you down a few pegs just to make sure you're not too excited and too happy about stuff.

Because it's positive vibes.

Because it's positive vibes.

Because it's positive vibes.

You've probably been given this advice or you've read it before that to succeed, you need to be surrounded by people. I've heard this before and I unfortunately took the wrong lesson from it.

You've probably been given this advice or you've read it before that to succeed, you need to be surrounded by people. I've heard this before and I unfortunately took the wrong lesson from it.

You've probably been given this advice or you've read it before that to succeed, you need to be surrounded by people. I've heard this before and I unfortunately took the wrong lesson from it.

When I was growing AJ and Smart in the beginning, one of my mentors was like, you need to be surrounded by people who will question everything, who are like the devil's advocates, who are like the yin to your yang. I was like, oh yeah, you're right. You gotta have those people around you.

When I was growing AJ and Smart in the beginning, one of my mentors was like, you need to be surrounded by people who will question everything, who are like the devil's advocates, who are like the yin to your yang. I was like, oh yeah, you're right. You gotta have those people around you.

When I was growing AJ and Smart in the beginning, one of my mentors was like, you need to be surrounded by people who will question everything, who are like the devil's advocates, who are like the yin to your yang. I was like, oh yeah, you're right. You gotta have those people around you.

And what I realized is that maybe you wanna have those types of people around you when you've already massively nailed it and you need to have, let's say you're running Facebook. You maybe need to have people around you who are like, oh, let's hold the brakes. Let's make sure this decision doesn't have like crazy consequences down the road.

And what I realized is that maybe you wanna have those types of people around you when you've already massively nailed it and you need to have, let's say you're running Facebook. You maybe need to have people around you who are like, oh, let's hold the brakes. Let's make sure this decision doesn't have like crazy consequences down the road.

And what I realized is that maybe you wanna have those types of people around you when you've already massively nailed it and you need to have, let's say you're running Facebook. You maybe need to have people around you who are like, oh, let's hold the brakes. Let's make sure this decision doesn't have like crazy consequences down the road.

But generally, you mostly don't want to be surrounded by people who are questioning everything and being the devil's advocates and telling you all the ways things can go wrong when your business is just starting out and you're still under 20 million. You want to be surrounded by people who are enthusiastic advocates and who are excited about what you're doing. And I think there was a time at A.J.